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by asveikau 9mo ago
For comparison, I was looking at slicer source lately. Slic3r and its popular forks (prusa slicer, Bambu, orca) are using C++ with wxWidgets and boost. Sometimes outdated versions of those libraries at that. But stuff that will work, and to
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by asveikau 9mo ago
> my first computer was a Windows 98 machine, with an Athlon XP 1900+ (Palomino core) Off topic, anyone else think Windows 98 is too old for this machine? At a similar era I built an athlon t-bird 1.0GHz, I was mostly using Linux by the
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by asveikau 9mo ago
Good idea to name this after the spy program that Snowden talked about.
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by asveikau 9mo ago
I'm not citing Chomsky with a claim that he's unassailable, just that it's a very old complaint. I also think he was right about a bunch of stuff, and wrong on others. As for what he suggested, this is reminding me that I nev
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by asveikau 9mo ago
Right now the Ellison family owns both CBS and the US version of TikTok, so sometimes the connection is kind of literal. But this complaint is pretty old, I think of Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent. (Setting aside his Epstein connectio
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by asveikau 9mo ago
You have easy access in that you can find things if you look for it. What that commenter means by easy access is that the information is in mainstream sources pushed to people such that you are likely to know about it without having looked.
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by asveikau 9mo ago
Gang enhancements are mostly a falsehood that cops and prosecutors use to get heavier prison sentences for racial minorities and to justify their budgets. Also, you seem to have mixed up prison gangs with street gangs in this latest comment
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by asveikau 9mo ago
I was at Microsoft for a few years. I think some amount of blame has to go to hiring quality declining over the years. I wrote a bit about this in an old comment: > They have a lot of staff turnover too, and each generation of new SDE h
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by asveikau 9mo ago
Sometime in the last 30 years I realized the "gang territory marking" thing is mostly made up and basically not to take anyone seriously when they say this.
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by asveikau 9mo ago
I'm surprised to see so many anti-graffiti comments here. Some of these are crude or ugly (and I'm aware that this is subjective), but a few of these are really good and don't deserve a citation. Meanwhile this thread is SC
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by asveikau 9mo ago
No, the way any serious person would look at crime data is per capita. You take the number of crimes committed by an immigrant and divide by the number of immigrants. That gives you a rate. The rate is lower than for people born in the US.
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by asveikau 9mo ago
> Let’s see your immigrant crime stats. https://www.google.com/search?q=immigrants+less+likely+to+co... > Crime is at an all time low because liberal DAs If you take out the outlier years of 2020-2022 caused by the pa
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by asveikau 9mo ago
They sold us on a lie about the extent of the illegal immigrant "problem". It's numerically impossible to make the promises they made and not deport people who it's hard to argue should be deported. Immigrants also commi
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by asveikau 9mo ago
I haven't had this experience at all.
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Even if you have an mp3 collection, the streaming apps are good for discovery, recommendations, and generating playlists. There are probably good local solutions for the last one especially, but a convenient UI that's already on all yo
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by asveikau 9mo ago
My first language is US English and I am familiar with that usage of the word "spot", but didn't make the connection to "Spotify" until reading your comment. This reminds me of the phenomenon of imported words being
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by asveikau 9mo ago
But ESR believed in right wing, libertarian adjacent politics. He's advocating for deregulated, free market ideas in the form of criticizing GNU. In doing this, he was seeking out the preferred metaphor and working backwards, rather th
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by asveikau 9mo ago
There are a lot of tangential, one-liner, throwaway jokes in this article.
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by asveikau 10mo ago
I think the further back you go in Indo-European grammar, the more common the thing you are describing becomes. For me it's less of a question of if English did this, and more like how far back you need to go. Today, even ignoring the
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by asveikau 10mo ago
In some languages you can put a second person conjugation next to a noun that might otherwise use third person verbs, and it serves as implying that you are that noun. I'm not sure if older forms of English had that construct. I think
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by asveikau 10mo ago
I guess nobody here reminiscing about Windows 8 will mention that the executive in charge of it was texting and emailing with Jeffrey Epstein.
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by asveikau 10mo ago
He had a stroke in I believe 2022, and is no longer verbal, so he hasn't been able to give fresh takes on current events such as Ukraine, Gaza, the second Trump term or the latest Epstein revelations. I remember his Ukraine takes seemi
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by asveikau 10mo ago
One interesting contrast is in his emails with Noam Chomsky, who wrote in complete paragraphs.
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by asveikau 10mo ago
I took a close look at the November document drop, which had some iChat backups. He really did text kind of like an imbecile. The tone is in his emails too.
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by asveikau 10mo ago
Among the subculture that would be the type to visit Hacker News (or Slashdot back in the day), this attitude emerged around 25 years ago. In the late 90s, there was widespread enthusiasm for the Linux desktop. I remember those days fondly.
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by asveikau 10mo ago
Your sibling comment mentions it. There's no details.. why didn't it work? Maybe the author didn't write it correctly? No word on what the assembly output for it was...
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by asveikau 10mo ago
This surprised me too. The snippet I was quoting from was already using sizeof, though. I missed the blurb about pointer arithmetic. Would be interesting to go into detail about what "had no effect" means.
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by asveikau 10mo ago
A bit of a code review (some details from the patch removed for clarity): + register int i; q = password; - while((*q = getchar()) != '\n') + i = 0; + while((*q = getchar()) != &#x2
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by asveikau 10mo ago
Too late to edit but I googled "old lady smell" and here is the ai summary: > ... aging odor, is a real biological scent caused by the compound 2-nonenal, produced as skin's antioxidants decline with age, creating a greasy
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by asveikau 10mo ago
I'm sorry about your mom. The odor part may be nothing to worry about. When I was a child I noticed an "old lady smell" that many people have. I used to think they had terrible taste in perfume. As my mom got older and I obse

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